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ClearHomo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
This paper uses evolutionary biology to argue that the pace of industrialization has outstripped human physiological adaptation, creating an environmental mismatch that explains rising chronic disease rates, with pollution including microplastics identified as a key contributing stressor.
H omo sapiens , industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
This study explores the concept of an environmental mismatch between the natural habitats in which humans evolved and the industrialized urban environments most people now inhabit. Researchers argue that the rapid changes since the Industrial Revolution, including environmental contamination with pollutants like microplastics, have created conditions fundamentally different from ancestral environments, with potential implications for human biology and health.
Effects of environmental pollution on wildlife and human Health and novel mitigation strategies
This review examines how environmental pollution from urbanization, industrialization, and chemical misuse affects both wildlife and human health across multiple ecosystems. The study discusses novel mitigation strategies for addressing contamination issues including chemical residues in animal-derived foods and the rising frequency of environment-related toxicity.
Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
This book on Planetary Health framed environmental degradation as a direct threat to human health across domains from pandemics to chronic disease to mental health, arguing that transformative changes in energy, food, housing, and transport systems are needed to simultaneously improve health outcomes and protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends.
Environmental Impacts on Human Health
This review examines the relationship between environmental conditions and human health through scientific, philosophical, and Islamic perspectives, comparing how environmental factors affect human wellbeing and how human activities in turn degrade the natural environment.
Food, Agriculture, Environment and Chronic non-communicable diseases: How are they connected?
This review examined the connections between modern diet, agricultural practices, and the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases, arguing that environmental changes since industrialization — including chemical pollutants, microplastics, and nutrient-depleted food systems — have outpaced evolutionary adaptation. The authors called for a food systems approach to reducing chronic disease burden.
Health Hazards due to Environmental Impacts
This review examined how environmental changes — including chemical contamination, climate shifts, and poor sanitation — negatively affect human health, concluding that chemical safety and environmental quality are foundational to preventing widespread disease.
Under Pressure: Environmental Stressors in Urban Ecosystems and Their Ecological and Social Consequences on Biodiversity and Human Well-Being
This review synthesized current knowledge on seven major urban environmental stressors—including air pollution, water degradation, and microplastics—and their ecological and social consequences for urban ecosystems. It highlighted how these pressures interact to threaten biodiversity and human well-being in cities.
The (in)compatibility of the Ecological Modernization Theory and Consumer Society
This review examines the compatibility between ecological modernization theory and consumer society, critically assessing whether economic growth and environmental protection can coexist through technological progress and green industry development. The authors find inherent tensions between the theory's assumptions and the consumption patterns that drive ecological degradation.
Chemical Pollution of the Aquatic Environment and Health
This review examines how industrialization over three centuries has increased human exposure to synthetic chemicals, many of which persist in the environment and bioaccumulate through food chains. The paper covers a broad range of chemical pollutants including microplastics, arguing that modern chemical exposure represents an underappreciated public health threat.
What´s missing in our Environment? (2019)
This reflective paper by an ecologist explores how humanity's growing technical capabilities have outpaced our ability to think ecologically and sustainably, with plastic pollution as a key example of unintended environmental consequences. It calls for a deeper integration of ecological thinking into science and decision-making.
Epithelial Barrier Hypothesis and Its Comparison with the Hygiene Hypothesis
This review examines the epithelial barrier hypothesis as a framework for understanding the rising prevalence of chronic inflammatory conditions in industrialized societies. Researchers propose that environmental factors associated with industrialization, including exposure to microplastics and other pollutants, may damage epithelial barriers in the skin, gut, and lungs, triggering immune responses that contribute to allergic, autoimmune, and metabolic conditions. The study suggests that the epithelial barrier hypothesis builds upon and complements earlier explanations like the hygiene hypothesis.
Review Article: Ecotoxicological Impacts of Pollution on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health in the Anthropocene
This review examines how Anthropocene-era pollutants—heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics—enter ecosystems, bioaccumulate through food chains, and threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functionality.
Symbiosis and the Anthropocene
Researchers examined how human-driven environmental changes in the Anthropocene — the current era defined by humanity's outsized impact on Earth — are disrupting symbiotic relationships between organisms that ecosystems depend on. The review argues that symbioses, from coral-algae partnerships to gut microbiomes, are keystone processes that must be considered when assessing how pollution, climate change, and habitat loss reshape entire ecosystems.
Facing stress and inflammation: From the cell to the planet.
This review examines stress and inflammation as interconnected biological responses at scales from the cell to the whole planet, tracing how environmental stressors including pollution drive inflammatory disease. The paper positions microplastic contamination and other anthropogenic pollutants as systemic stressors that may be contributing to rising rates of chronic inflammatory conditions.
Environmental issues resulting from scientific and technical progress
This article argues that unrestrained technological and scientific progress has created global environmental crises that now threaten life on Earth, emphasizing the urgency of rethinking humanity's relationship with nature. Plastic pollution and microplastics are among the key environmental consequences discussed.
From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to the Ecological Transition
This philosophical and scientific paper frames the current environmental crisis as an Anthropocene crisis involving not just climate change but the destabilization of the entire Earth system, including plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. The author argues that ecological transition requires systemic change in human-nature relationships.
The Importance of Environmental Sustainability for Healthy Ageing and The Incorporation of Systems Thinking in Education for A Sustainable Environment
This paper argues that environmental sustainability is a prerequisite for healthy ageing in an increasingly elderly global population, reviewing evidence linking chemical pollution, climate change, and ecosystem degradation to age-related disease. The authors call for systems thinking education to train public health professionals to address environmental sustainability as a core component of healthy ageing policy.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: An Evolutionary Adaptation to Lifestyle and the Environment
This review proposes that polycystic ovary syndrome represents an evolutionary adaptation to modern lifestyle and environment, suggesting that genetic predispositions shaped by ancient caloric scarcity are triggered by contemporary nutritional excess and endocrine-disrupting chemical exposures.
The Malthusian Trap: A Modern Framework for Population Growth and Climate-Induced Resource Scarcity
This theoretical paper updates the Malthusian Trap concept for the 21st century, arguing that climate change, microplastic pollution, and resource scarcity are creating new existential pressures on human populations beyond simply food production.
Sustainable Urbanization and Microplastic Management: Implications for Human Health and the Environment
This review examines how rapid urbanization increases microplastic pollution through packaging waste, personal care products, and industrial activities, and explores the resulting health and environmental impacts. Microplastics in urban settings enter the body through food, water, and air, potentially causing inflammation, hormone disruption, and other health problems. The authors call for sustainable urban planning strategies that address microplastic management to protect public health.
Nutritional physiology and ecology of wildlife in a changing world
This review examined how environmental change — including chemical pollution and habitat degradation — affects the nutritional physiology and ecology of wildlife, providing a broad framework for understanding pollutant impacts on animal health.
The web of life: Role of pollution in biodiversity decline
This review examines the role of various forms of pollution in driving biodiversity decline globally. The study highlights how human activities have reshaped natural habitats, and evidence indicates that biodiversity loss can affect ecosystems as significantly as climate change and other major environmental stresses.
Influence of Environmental Contaminants as Mutagens in the Ecosystem
This research review summarizes how chemicals in our environment—like heavy metals, plastics, and pesticides—can damage our DNA and cause harmful changes to our genes. These environmental toxins can lead to cancer, affect how our bodies work, and may even harm future generations by damaging reproductive cells. The study highlights why we need better environmental protection and cleaner practices to protect human health from these everyday chemical exposures.